I'm a Libertarian living in Humboldt County, CA. I've lived here in Eureka since 1973 and joined the Libertarian Party in 1992. This blog will mostly focus on local political issues, but I may stray into state and national issues as well, when I can't help myself. Please post your comments by clicking on the "comments" link at the bottom of each post. Although I do moderate comments, you need not be a registered user to post them.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Sommerville Fights Back

I suppose editor of the Times- Standard, Rich Sommerville, isn't really fighting back, as he seems pretty calm about it, but he addresses bias in newspapers in his column this morning.

I've mentioned my own feeling on the issue here before. Sure, there might appear to be deliberate bias because of frequency of reporting on a given issue more than one would think necessary, but I think that's because of a natural tendency for reporters (heck, anyone for that matter) to hang around people they know and deal with subjects which interest them.

Most of the time I've seen people complain of bias in the newspapers, it's because the story wasn't written the way a reader might have liked it written.

I had to bring up, in a comment to the T-S web site, I remember a while back when the T-S ran two different letters to the editor side by side one day. One letter accusing the paper of right wing bias, the other accusing of a left wing bias.